SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ambert, Conspicuous Consumption, Pierre Bourdieu
28 Oct 2013
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Pierre bourdieu (1979), distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste. Habitus: speech patterns, lifestyle, appreciation that determines where an individual feels comfortable and knowledgeable or at home . The two-income trap: why middle-class mothers and fathers are going broke by. Thorstein veblen (1899) the theory of the leisure class. Money influences how people make distinctions about prestige in the occupational category: (teacher, senior janitor and plumber example) Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste (bourdieu,1979) Tastes preferences of individuals in different social classes. How cultivated disposition and cultural competence are revealed through the consumption of good (1979: 13) Like every sort of taste, it unites and separates. Being the product of the conditioning associated. With a particular class of conditions of existence, It unites all those who are the product of similar. Conditions while distinguishing them from all others. And it distinguishes in an essential way, since.
